“But I shall have you to manage for me, Miss Ruth,” declared the lawyer. “That is different.”
“Perhaps we might take the twins along with us, and you’d get used to them,” Ruth said. “You say they like it up there in the wilderness.”
“Frank said they were crazy about it.”
“Well?”
“You don’t know what you are letting yourselves in for. Ralph and Rowena are young savages.”
“Can’t be much worse than Sammy, yonder,” chuckled Neale, who, with Agnes, was much interested in this part of the planning.
“Oh, Ruthie!” exclaimed the second Kenway sister suddenly, clasping her hands. “There’s Cecile and Luke!”
“Where—what—?”
“I mean we invited them to come to the Corner House for the holidays.”
“Ah-ha!” exclaimed Mr. Howbridge promptly. “The Shepards? Of course! I had already included them—in my mind.”